As colleges enroll more underprepared students, they’re increasingly eliminating remedial courses. Critics say it’s unrealistic to expect nearly every student to succeed right off the bat — even with extra academic support.

One potential measure of reach is in online sharing: posts on Twitter, blog links, and other engagement metrics of various kinds.

Don’t be defensive. Talk about how your institution brings value. And more advice that college leaders recommend.

Many students get stuck in college algebra. They might be better served with a different course.

Although the corequisite model is effective in getting students through the door, it lowers standards and limits opportunities.

What’s on the horizon in admissions, business models, college rankings, and more, from our 2019 Trends Report.

By drawing their neighbors into a dialogue, colleges can rebuild public support for higher education.

A skeptical public is increasingly willing to interfere in colleges’ internal affairs.

After the demise of the legal principle in loco parentis, colleges viewed their role more as bystanders. Now they are finding a middle ground.

Liberty, Grand Canyon, Western Governors, and a few other universities have found a new way to play the game that many colleges are losing. Could they one day lay claim to a significant share of the nation’s new college students?

Small rebellions, universitywide subscription renegotiations, and a European open-access mandate for certain research are putting unusual pressure on industry giants.

By creating journals that put a premium on replicability, grant-funding agencies could revolutionize the publishing landscape.

Twenty-five private gifts valued at $50 million or more were announced by colleges and universities in the 2018 calendar year.

Two of the latest titles look at the role of land-grant colleges, one of the books examining those institutions’ past and the other their future.

The college aspirations of many capable students sink because they don’t have the knowledge to navigate the guidance and application process, a new book says.

In a world short on truth, universities should not be shy about teaching facts, a college president says.

A campus visit to discuss research can supercharge an academic career — and be a valuable perk.

The best-selling author Alexandra Robbins’s new book explores the world of fraternities. In some, good boys go bad, she writes, but in most, good boys become even better men.

The University of Virginia’s provost will become president at Connecticut. Alvernia’s next provost comes from Central Connecticut State University.

It will take the Ohio university 20 years to return to the fiscal strength it held earlier in the decade. What went wrong? The answer is a mix of spending and scandal.

Both sides in a closely watched legal battle over race-conscious admissions made closing arguments in federal court on Wednesday. The judge heard allegations of discrimination — and several Orwell references.

Last summer, scholars wrote letters to people who had been detained by immigration agents at the local prison. Detainees wrote back.

A new Title IX lawsuit against Yale University and nine of its fraternities seeks to force the groups to accept women as members. It also says Yale has abdicated its duty to protect students from sexual misconduct.

In the #ButFirstFAFSA campaign, the U.S. Education Department looks to promote the federal student-aid form through sponsored posts.

It took two lengthy weekend negotiating sessions, accompanied by a federal mediator, to reach the agreement.

The nearly $47 billion institutions took in was fueled in part by a 66-percent leap in dollars channeled from donor-advised funds, according to a new report.

After a professor at Augsburg University was suspended for using a slur from a James Baldwin essay, academics are torn on how far academic freedom should extend.

Faculty members at Fort Lewis College hope a curriculum overhaul can revive their last foreign language.

Since when is reading James Baldwin out loud in class an academic crime?

After racist pictures from Gov. Ralph S. Northam’s 1984 medical-school yearbook were posted online last week, Twitter has been aflame with similar photos plucked from other yearbooks.

In some cases, high-school students may make up a third of two-year colleges’ enrollment, but equity is a major concern.

In a tight market, many look to distinguish themselves through expansive online programs, study-abroad opportunities, professional development, or athletics.

You don’t want the search committee to think you sound like a panicked undergraduate trying to explain why a paper is late.

How to use movie trailers, social media, and other nontraditional forms of rhetoric to improve student writing.